One year after the events of Final Fantasy XII, Vaan and Penelo set out in an airship to visit Balthier and Fran in the ruins of Bervenia to obtain its cache. There, they found the Airship left by the god Feolthanos for his decendants to use to travel to the legendary Purvama Lemures, which was long hidden from Ivalice until now.

The game will be directed and plotted by Motomu Toriyama, who also directed Final Fantasy X-2 and Final Fantasy XIII. According to Toriyama, the game is aimed at Nintendo DS owners who are not experienced with Final Fantasy games, and will remove overly complicated elements from the battle system...that will allow (the player) to defeat the enemies with minimal controls.